I’m not writing this piece as a straight review of Pacific Rim. Instead I am honestly interested in hearing from other people who have seen the movie. I want to know if they took the same intent away from the film that I did, or if I am reading too much into the motivations of […]

The common perception of a dramatic story is one that surprises or shocks the audience with unexpected twists. I think a better case can be made for the opposite approach. I don’t refer to mundane, by-the-numbers storytelling. I mean the power of inevitability. The ability of a filmmaker to draw from the audience the recognition […]

It’s a very risky project when a filmmaker tries to make a genre film that wears a political message on its sleeve. But that’s exactly what co-writer/producer/director Larry Fessenden did with The Last Winter. Unlike other films that have attempted to merge an ecological message with horror elements (I’m looking at you The Happening), Fessenden […]